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How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster (latimes.com)

181 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 24, 2019 | 92 comments

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How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017) (miamiherald.com)

181 points by wyndham on Dec 8, 2019 | 90 comments

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Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018) (theatlantic.com)

180 points by PythagoRascal on Dec 16, 2019 | 200 comments

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Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018) (bbc.co.uk)

180 points by AndrewBissell on Dec 12, 2019 | 144 comments

635.

CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping (gamozolabs.github.io)

180 points by matt_d on Dec 30, 2019 | 19 comments

636.

Functional programming design patterns (2015) [video] (youtube.com)

180 points by ducaale on Dec 25, 2019 | 14 comments

637.

The Road to Scala 3 (scala-lang.org)

179 points by nuriaion on Dec 19, 2019 | 189 comments

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Returned online purchases often sent to landfill (cbc.ca)

179 points by pwg on Dec 14, 2019 | 157 comments

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Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD (openwall.com)

179 points by jwilk on Dec 4, 2019 | 90 comments

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Tract: A Hugo theme for ambitious documentation projects (lucperkins.dev)

179 points by biggestlou on Dec 2, 2019 | 75 comments

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Show HN: Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune (krabby.netlify.com)

179 points by alexherbo2 on Dec 15, 2019 | 75 comments

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Boeing astronaut capsule for NASA stalls in orbit (bbc.com)

179 points by tartoran on Dec 20, 2019 | 2 comments

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'Shockingly High' Number of Injuries at Amazon's Staten Island Warehouse (gothamist.com)

178 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 4, 2019 | 86 comments

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NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars (nasa.gov)

178 points by Edward9 on Dec 12, 2019 | 50 comments

645.

An industrious mouse tidies up a retired electrician’s tool shed each night (petapixel.com)

178 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 4, 2019 | 27 comments

646.

Python Type Hints (kunigami.blog)

177 points by lelf on Dec 27, 2019 | 219 comments

647.

A new way to make quadratic equations easy (technologyreview.com)

177 points by uniqueid on Dec 6, 2019 | 94 comments

648.

Ask HN: Ex-Employer gossiping I “hacked” their platform – what to do?

177 points by _u844 on Dec 30, 2019 | 91 comments

649.

Killersheep – Silly game to show off the new features of Vim 8.2 (github.com)

177 points by gilad on Dec 15, 2019 | 58 comments

650.

On Linux's Random Number Generation (research.nccgroup.com)

176 points by raesene9 on Dec 20, 2019 | 83 comments

651.

Kill Sticky Headers (2013) (alisdair.mcdiarmid.org)

176 points by pcr910303 on Dec 4, 2019 | 81 comments

652.

A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines (adventures.michaelfbryan.com)

176 points by MichaelFBryan on Dec 27, 2019 | 73 comments

653.

The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse (lambdaclass.com)

176 points by lelf on Dec 29, 2019 | 67 comments

654.

Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Processes (macias.info)

175 points by robfig on Dec 24, 2019 | 178 comments

655.

The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID (faa.gov)

175 points by EGreg on Dec 26, 2019 | 153 comments

656.

Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow (blog.mattbierner.com)

175 points by pkilgore on Dec 13, 2019 | 140 comments

657.

267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online (comparitech.com)

175 points by JeanMarcS on Dec 20, 2019 | 65 comments

658.

Books on Thinking About Thinking (bloomberg.com)

175 points by moh_maya on Dec 15, 2019 | 25 comments

659.

Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552 (arstechnica.com)

174 points by panarky on Dec 16, 2019 | 112 comments

660.

What were the creepiest declassified documents of the last decade? (old.reddit.com)

174 points by sbmthakur on Dec 30, 2019 | 102 comments